Senior defense and Administration officials concur with this assessment, but a Pakistani senior military official, whom I reached at his office, in Rawalpindi, disagreed.
All of this is likely to become part of a broader Defense Department and administration review of the U.S. military presence throughout the region.
On defense, the administration's list suggests it will target expensive weapons systems but does not specify which programs will be cut or how much money will be saved.
As Craig, Roberts and others vocalized their opposition to the move, McCain, sources said, came to the defense of the administration, saying Republicans should support their first attempt at streamlining at the Pentagon.
Despite efforts by the then-Bush administration Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his Foggy Bottom counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, to try to find some programmatic accommodation with the Russians, in the end President Bush stood firm.
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Aides familiar with late drafts of the president's speech also said Bush will make a spirited defense of his administration's enforcement efforts -- an bid to counter Democratic efforts to paint the White House as too cozy with big business and, more specifically, to defuse calls for Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt to resign.
We have appreciated the steps by the current U.S. administration in terms of the decisions in the area of anti-missile defense of the present administration, and this has led to progress.
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The United States is divided into five Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADDs).
Chuck Hagel's nomination to defense secretary in this administration is a particularly troubling and controversial nomination.
These researchers consult with and receive substantial grants to conduct research for the Department of Defense, Transportation Security Administration and other agencies.
Graham Allison was assistant secretary of defense under the Clinton administration.
Meanwhile, within the classified portion of the defense budget, the administration is proposing funding cuts to a program known as EnhancedView, a pioneering project to buy commercial images to complement the work of highly classified spy satellites.
Many analysts were predicting that the Bush defense buildup would end when the administration did, so the announcement that year that a defense-industry icon was also departing after a dozen years of running General Dynamics was viewed as a negative for sector shares.
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Defense in the Reagan Administration.
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At a minimum, the Senator's formidable intellect and committed conservatism should make him a contender in his own right -- for the position of Secretary of State or Defense in a Republican administration headed by whichever candidate has the good political and policy sense to embrace the Wallop vision and, thereby, to improve his chances of winning the White House.
And if he's confused about that, or if anybody is confused about that, he can ask the Secretary of Defense in the previous administration, the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the previous administration, the commander for Afghanistan and Iraq that oversees that region of the world from the previous administration, why they support closing Guantanamo Bay and support today's decision.
In 2011, the Obama administration abandoned its defense of the law but continues to enforce it.
The Obama administration calls the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, agreeing with the ruling of lower federal courts.
Republican lawmakers, who have long accused the Clinton administration of underfunding defense and overcommitting U.S. forces, seized on the report as proof of their argument.
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Beyond the budget, Lew is expected to hew closely to the positions Geithner struck on Europe's debt crisis, the U.S. relationship with China and the administration's defense of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law that the banking industry has fought to weaken.
If Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney or Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the administration's leading neoconservative, had been aware of the brutal war America had fought in the Philippines, or of Wilson's misadventures in Mexico, or of the blighted history of Western imperialism in the Mideast, they might still have invaded Iraq.
What is perhaps most interesting is, despite the rhetoric about the need for transformation and the desire not to be trapped into two large land campaigns, how little the 2001 QDR force structure differed from its predecessors going back to the BUR. (See Table 2.) In part, this reflected the impact of increased defense spending by the Bush Administration.
The Clinton Administration transformed the missile defense program it inherited from Reagan and successor George H.
Douglas Feith, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy under the Bush administration, spoke on the topic of international law.
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Republican lawmakers agreed Friday with the move to reinstate the missile-defense capacity, and said the administration was wrong to freeze the system in 2009.
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Environmentalists, like John Walke of Natural Resources Defense Council, say the Bush administration is abandoning an essential tool to force those plant to clean up fast.
The Obama administration is cutting the defense budget by 10%.
First, were you concerned at all when you -- when the administration had Secretary of Defense Gates call this pastor in Florida that you were elevating somebody who is clearly from the fringe?
That is especially true of the Washington hands who so heartily welcomed the retention of the Bush administration's secretary of defense on the grounds that he was a "centrist, " "non-partisan" and technocrat-turned-statesman.
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